Mackin provides high-quality and affordable books, with optional backpacks or bags, for
at-home or in-school reading programs.
High-interest titles foster reading for fun while improving students’ reading scores.
- “Summer reading programs benefit all children by preventing the decrease of reading skills and promoting the joy of reading.” (Alexander & Entwisle, 1996).
- Helps prevent summer slide by keeping students in touch with interesting reading material all summer long.
- Create a community of book lovers through summer book clubs, programs or competitions like Battle of the Books.
Complement and reinforce in-school studies, or provide fun reading materials for home use.
- Great program for all ages
- Increases literacy skills for low-income or ELL families
- Builds students’ sense of “ownership” for literature
Mackin can provide books for any reading program, custom-labeled and sorted for your convenience.
Nylon drawstring backpack
(five colors available: royal blue, forest green, red, black, and purple)
$6.99 per bag
Includes bag and labor for Mackin to sort, organize, and stuff books into bags. Mackin will also label and color code shipping boxes.
- Mackin can organize your bags by genre, grade level, reading level, quantity and more.
- Mackin can add reading logs, bookmarks, or brochures for summer reading programs or public library summer services to all of your bags.
- Custom design on the front of the bags. Contact us for a price estimate.
Request a customized title list
Request a price estimate
- Send us any list of books to quote for you. Use the Reading Bag Order Form to select your packaging and leveling options.
Get more information
- View our FAQs or contact one of our Reading Services project coordinators to get all of your questions answered.
- Title I, Title III
- Early Reading First
- 21st Century Community
- Gifted/Talented Students
- Regional Summer Schools
- Innovative Reading Grants
- Reading First
- At Risk
- Head Start
- Even Start
- Migrant Education